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The Happy Pod: Learning to play the guitar one handed

01 Mar 2025

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Tony Romaine has taught himself how to play the guitar with one arm, after a stroke left him unable to walk or speak. Plus, Ilona Maher on using social media to spread positivity and the 105 year old raver.

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0.089 - 11.384 Narrator

This BBC podcast is supported by ads outside the UK. On our podcast, Good Bad Billionaire, we explain how the world's billionaires made all their money.

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11.464 - 20.27 Narrator

Pop stars and tech titans, founders and filmmakers, inventors and investors, we cover them all. And for the first time, we're talking about a video game designer.

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20.33 - 28.014 Narrator

Yep, we're talking about Marcus Persson, the Swedish coding king who programmed the world's most successful game, Minecraft, all by himself.

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28.214 - 35.659 Narrator

He made a billion, but is he good, bad, or just another billionaire? Find out on Good Bad Billionaire, listen on the BBC app, or wherever you get your podcasts.

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38.092 - 41.353 Alex Ritson

This is The Happy Pod from the BBC World Service.

46.673 - 62.036 Tony Romaine

I'm Alex Ritson and in this edition... Even if things seem almost impossible, we can do it. We can do anything we want. If it's something that important to you, just go. Don't stop until you get somewhere you want to be.

62.556 - 66.657 Alex Ritson

The man trying to get his music career back after a life-changing stroke...

67.182 - 77.231 Ilona Maher

You can be beautiful and wear lipstick. I wear lipstick when I play rugby because I just feel like I don't have to sacrifice one or the other. Like I can be a beast in the field, but also feel beautiful and wear lipstick.

77.745 - 88.769 Alex Ritson

The young female athlete trying to inspire the next generation to follow in her footsteps. Plus, we find out why dozens of people have been queuing outside a funeral home in China.

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